Knowing Quotes

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.

Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he wants, but he knows far more than I know about what's important for the story. So, most of the changes he will make will involve story changes.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.

You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.

Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.

Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.

I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.